The Noyes Art Center, a converted grammar school, houses Evanston's Next and Zarko Theatres. Lookingglass makes its home in the pumping station across from the Water Tower. Latino Chicago Theater (of blessed memory) worked out of a converted firehouse in Pilsen.

One of the pioneers of Chicago Off-Loop Theater, costume designer Patricia Hart, died at dawn Sunday morning (April 10) after a two-year on-and-off battle with brain cancer. She was 64.Hart was born in St.

Have you ever been at an existential fork in the road? Stuck in a rut? Wondering if there’s more to life than the same-old-same-old? How do you break out of it? And what are the consequences of a prison break – for you and those you love?

"Whenever there is economic distress, we know that women are always on the front lines, and we know that women's rights are always pushed back," playwright and activist Eve Ensler told Eight Forty-Eight's Alison Cuddy on Thursday.